The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has contributed approximately 500 additional images of works from their collections to the Artstor Digital Library, bringing the total selection to approximately 1,000. (more…)
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Now available: additional images from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Posted in American Art, Collections, Decorative Arts, Release, tagged Americana, Decorative Arts on October 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Now available: the Majolica International Society
Posted in Collections, Decorative Arts, Release, tagged Decorative Arts on October 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Majolica International Society has contributed 1,000 images of Majolica pottery from the archival collections of its members to the Artstor Digital Library. (more…)
Now available: the Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Posted in American Art, Collections, Release, tagged American Art on October 12, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Reynolda House Museum of American Art (Reynolda House) has contributed approximately 200 images to the Artstor Digital Library. (more…)
The Corning Museum of Glass
Posted in Collections, Decorative Arts, Release, tagged Decorative Arts on October 12, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Corning Museum of Glass (CMOG) has contributed 2,784 images of works in its permanent collection to the Artstor Digital Library. The abundant selection in Artstor encompasses all areas of the encyclopedic and unique glass collection. (more…)
Now available: more than 170,000 new images in Anthropology
Posted in Collections, Release, tagged Anthropology on September 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Artstor has released more than 170,000 new images in Anthropology from three major institutions. The release spans global cultures past and present and includes rare and valuable material including sacred objects and architecture, as well as clothing, jewelry, and tools.
Now available: additional images from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Posted in Collections, Release on September 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University) is contributing more than 95,000 additional images of objects from their permanent collection to Artstor, bringing the total selection to approximately 143,000. The collection and its representation in Artstor, featuring African, Native North American, Pre-Columbian, European, Oceanic, and Asian cultures is virtually encyclopedic. The current contribution further enhances a rich selection.
A sampling of a single artifact — the mask — across time and place illustrates the scope of the collection: from an Aztec stone effigy c. 1500 to its Panamanian ceramic counterpart, a Tlingit copper version of the mid 1800s, and a Mohawk corn husk Spirit image worn in ritual dances. Likewise, the juxtaposition of similar objects underscores the aesthetic and spiritual differences between cultures: a Communication Artifact (a wooden bird) from Rwanda and a Pre-Columbian Gold bird-shaped ornament from Chiriqui, Panama. Nonetheless, form, function, and even materials appear to be all but replicated in two versions of a beaded collar, objects that are geographically and culturally disparate, one from the Masai in Kenya and the other from the Mojave of California.
Now available: African art and Aboriginal paintings from the Musée du quai Branly (Réunion des Musées Nationaux)
Posted in Collections, Release on September 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN), and Art Resource are contributing nearly 1,400 images of works from the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac to the Artstor Digital Library. The selection of images available in Artstor from this collection of global, non-Western art from pre-history to the present centers on the outstanding African collections, and also includes a selection of Aboriginal paintings from Australia, as well as other varied works.
The diversity of African cultures represented is illustrated by a limited sample: a Mask Headdress with a Shark from the Ijo people of Nigeria; a Magic Zoomorphic Statuette, before 1892, from the Kingdom of Loango (now part of the Republic of the Congo); and a panel from the Gate of the Royal Palace at Abomey, c. 1889, Kingdom of Dahomey, Benin. The selection in Artstor also includes brilliant examples from other cultures such as a feather Poncho from the Inca, c. 1500, and a tiny animal/man hybrid Figurine from the Inuit. (more…)